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Phil Lesh

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Phil Lesh was an American musician best known as the bassist for the Grateful Dead, a band that became iconic in the rock and jam band scenes. Born on March 15, 1940, in Berkeley, California, Lesh played a crucial role in the band's experimental and improvisational approach to music, blending rock, jazz, and classical influences.

Lesh's innovative bass playing and harmony vocals contributed significantly to the Grateful Dead's signature sound. After the band dissolved in 1995, he continued to perform with various projects, including Phil Lesh & Friends, and participated in numerous tribute concerts and festivals celebrating the band's legacy

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Article: Interview

Souvik Dutta: 20 Years of Abstract Logix

Read "Souvik Dutta: 20 Years of Abstract Logix" reviewed by Mike Jacobs


If you are a music lover, you may already know the name Souvik (pronounced show-vik) Dutta. Over the last 20 years, he has taken his Abstract Logix enterprise from a pre-YouTube streaming platform to a music retail website to a niche imprint to a respected independent label boasting a top-tier roster that includes the likes of ...

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RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73

Label: Rhino
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Morning Dew; Beat It On Down The Line; Ramble On Rose; Jack Straw; Wave That Flag; Looks Like Rain; Box Of Rain; They Love Each Other; The Race Is On; Row Jimmy; El Paso. CD 2: Bird Song; Playing In The Band; Eyes Of The World>Stella Blue; Big River; Here Comes Sunshine; CD 3: Around And Around; Dark Star>He's Gone>Wharf Rat>Truckin'; Sugar Magnolia. CD 4: It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry; That's All Right; Promised Land; Not Fade Away>Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>Drums>Not Fade Away; Johnny B. Goode.

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Ace - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)

Label: Rhino
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Greatest Story Ever Told; Black-Throated Wind; Walk In The Sunshine; Playing In The Band; Looks Like Rain; Mexicali Blues; One More Saturday Night; Cassidy. CD 2: Greatest Story Ever Told; Black- Throated Wind; Walk In The Sunshine; Playing In The Band; Looks Like Rain; Mexicali Blues Intro; Mexicali Blues; One More Saturday Night; Cassidy.

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Article: Album Review

John Scofield: Uncle John's Band

Read "Uncle John's Band" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead's bassist for over 30 years, claimed their basic inspiration came from the musical unions he saw in the Miles Davis Quartet along with the John Coltrane Quartet from the early 1960s. John Scofield and Lesh have played together on many occasions. So perhaps it is no surprise that the Grateful Dead anthem, ...

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Article: Live Review

Sun Ra Arkestra at SFJAZZ Center

Read "Sun Ra Arkestra at SFJAZZ Center" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser


Sun Ra Arkestra SFJAZZ Center Summer Season San Francisco July 18-21, 2023 Though on the surface, Dead & Company and the Sun Ra Arkestra--the first a Grateful Dead offshoot focusing on rock tunes featuring extended jams, the other an avant-garde jazz ensemble that remains ahead of its time--might seem really ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob Weir: Ace - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)

Read "Ace - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)" reviewed by Doug Collette


Befitting its heady milestone date, the title of Bob Weir's initial solo album, Ace, carries multiple meanings. First of all, it was the Grateful Dead guitarist, vocalist & songwriter's nickname at the time of its gestation and completion (his bawdy persona as such mirrored in the ultra-suave pose on the inside photo as well as the ...

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Dave’s Picks Volume 38: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 9/8/73

Label: Rhino
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1: Bertha; Me And My Uncle; Sugaree; Beat It On Down The Line; Tennessee Jed; Looks Like Rain; Brown-Eyed Women; Jack Straw; Row Jimmy: Weather Report Suite - Prelude/Part I/Part II (Let It Grow). CD 2: Eyes Of The World; China Doll; Greatest Story Ever Told; Ramble On Rose; Big River; Let Me Sing Your Blues Away; China Cat Sunflower; I Know You Rider; El Paso. (Bonus) Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (9/7/73) - Bird Song. CD 3: He's Gone; Truckin'; Not Fade Away; Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad; Not Fade Away; Stella Blue; One More Saturday Night. (Bonus) Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (9/7/73) - Playing In The Band.

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Lyceum Theatre, London, England - 5/26/72

Label: Rhino
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1: Promised Land; Sugaree; Mr. Charlie; Black Throated Wind; Loser; Next Time You See Me; El Paso; Dire Wolf; Two Souls In Communion; Playing In The Band. CD 2: He's Gone; Cumberland Blues; Jack Straw; Chinatown Shuffle; China Cat Sunflower;I Know You Rider; Not Fade Away >Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad>Not Fade Away. CD 3: Truckin'; The Other One; Morning Dew; The Other One; Sing Me Back Home. CD 4: Me And My Uncle; Ramble On Rose; Sugar Magnolia; Casey Jones; One More Saturday Night.

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Article: Film Review

Inside Scofield

Read "Inside Scofield" reviewed by Ian Patterson


John Scofield Inside Scofield I'm Filming Productions 2022 “I've been lucky," says John Scofield, two thirds of the way through Joerg Steineck's documentary on the guitarist. “I've been in the right place at the right time, and I've also made good use of the luck that was handed to me."


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